Apartment owners claim the super-skinny tower’s developers failed to disclose the extent of damage that has resulted in ...

Up close the aluminum screens are semitransparent. (Timothy Soar) A mock-up panel installed on the facade of the office building. (Courtesy GROUPWORK) For the envelope of the building, GROUPWORK ...

The building’s most striking feature is the ... closely with the Shigeru Ban architectural team to produce a mock-up of the facade prior to construction and ensure an effective on-site assembly.

Building facade material manufacturers ... process to determine the facade’s performance and how it will react in use. Offsite performance mock-up testing is to understand the overall performance and ...

Named 550 Spencer, the eight-story office building will produce more electricity than it requires using a cutting-edge solar facade made up of 1,182 solar panels. "At the time I had been ...

A new lawsuit by 432 Park’s condo board alleges the building’s developers ignored and warnings about cracks in its high-rise’s concrete facade and tried to cover up the defects. Photo ...

That's where the FlectoLine facade comes in, as it uses not just one but two bio-inspired mechanisms to automatically regulate how much solar thermal energy gets through a building's windows.

A German research partnership has developed a prefabricated façade building element with integrated photovoltaics that combines power generation, weather protection and thermal insulation. The ...